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Swimming champion Eleanor Holm, star of Billy Rose's Aquacade, appears at the World's Fair of 1939 in New York City on November 4, 1939. (AP Photo)

Clark Gable stars as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara whose love affair is a predominant theme in the 1939 classic movie

Ballerina Tamara Toumanova is shown in 1939. (AP Photo)

This is a 1939 photo of actor Charles Laughton in the role of

CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, is shown in this 1939 photo. (AP Photo)

Here is how the windows of a Jewish shop in Berlin ,Germany, looked June 19,1938 after being daubed with the word Jude, Jew. (AP Photo)

Sen. Pat Harrison, D-Miss., told the Senate in Washington May 28, 1938 that President Franklin Roosevelt was all wrong when he criticized the new tax...

Leni Riefenstahl, right, actress, director, scenarist as well as the czarina of Nazi moviedom, is shown at the

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, on his way to see Adolf Hitler to discuss peace or war, finds a broad smile for a German Army officer sal...

Composer Morton Gould, is shown in this 1938 photo. Gould, a prolific composer who blended American themes into symphonic works, breaking down the bar...

"I'm hot," Jacqueline Cochran Odlum exclaimed as she arrived in Miami from New York Dec. 3, 1937 after setting a new air record of 4 hours, 12 minutes...

This is a Dec. 2, 1937 photo of Ralph Guldahl. (AP Photo)

This International Harvester Company's picker is shown in this Oct. 16, 1937 photo in Memphis handling machine-picked cotton. This machine is a dou...

New York Yankee manager Joe McCarthy, right, and Chicago Cubs' Gabby Hartnett shake hands October 5, 1937, just before the first World Series Game in...

Ralph Guldahl, Chicago professional who turned in a record-breaking performance to win the U.S. Open Golf Championship at Birmingham, Mich., June 12,...

Richard T. Frankensteen, U.A.W. organizational director, with coat pulled over his head, is pummeled at the gate of the Ford River Rouge plant in Dear...

Ruins of the school in New London, Texas, on March 20, 1937, three says after the explosion in which hundreds of youngsters were killed. (AP Photo)

Oil field huskies, who rushed from the surrounding country, are shown amid the ruins of the Consolidated school in New London, Texas on March 20, 1937...

One of the few survivors of the natural gas explosion at the Consolidated School in New London, Texas, looks over one of the books that were found in...

Workers scan the debris of the New London Consolidated School in Texas March 19, 1937, seeking the bodies of nearly 700 students killed in an explosio...

Rescue workers probe the twisted steel skeleton of the building of the Consolidated School in New London, Texas, which was demolished following a natu...

Sam Snead competes in the Oakland Golf Open Jan. 17, 1937, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo)

Track star Jesse Owens is shown on the starting line just before he raced a horse at Tropical Park on December 26, 1936. Owens ran 100 yards in 9.9 f...

Early morning workers read of rumors of the abdication Dec.10, 1936 of King Edward VIII. (AP Photo)

Muralist Diego Rivera works on one of the panels of a mural in the Hotel Reforma in Mexico, December 3, 1936. The political content of the work resul...

Jesse Owens, winner of four gold medals in the Summer Olympics, waves to the crowd during a ticker tape parade down Broadway in New York, Sept. 3, 193...

Jesse Owens takes the baton from Frank Wykoff on the last 100-yard lap of the 400-yard relay in a dual meet between the United States and Great Britai...

Winners of the Olympic marathon stand at the podium during the medal ceremony in Berlin August 9, 1936. Pictured are Sohn Kee-chung, center, of Japan...

The U.S. 4 x 100-meter relay team pose after winning the Olympic gold medal and setting a world record running a 39.8 sec. race in Berlin August 18, 1...

America's Jesse Owens flies throught the air during the broad jump competition on the last day of the Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, Aug. 15, 193...

Jesse Owens shown in action in a 200-meter preliminary heat at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. (AP Photo)

Jesse Owens hits the ground to set a new world broad jump record at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin on August 14, 1936. (AP Photo)

Olympic broad jump medalists salute during the medals ceremony Aug. 11, 1936 at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. From left on podium are: bronze medali...

The aquatic stadium is filled at the Berlin Olympics during the 4x200 meter Olympic relay final. The Japanese team set an Olympic record, August 11,...

United States track and field stars left to right: Cornelius Johnson, Los Angeles, high jump record breaker, Jesse Owens, Cleveland, 100-meter, 200-me...

These four men, shown together in the Olympic Village in Berlin, represent the cream of the world's modern distance running talent. Left to right: G...

The Olympic torch is brought from Berlin Stadium to Gruenau on August 7, 1936. (AP Photo)

Americans Jesse Owens, left, and Frank Wykoff, right, are shown working out in the Olympic village in Berlin, Germany on Aug. 6, 1936. (AP Photo)

Jesse Owens is shown winning the 100-meter dash at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. His time was 10.3 secs. equalling the world record. Teammate...

Jesse Owens of Cleveland, Ohio, is shown breaking the tape in the second heat of the quarterfinals of the 100-meter race on the opening day of competi...

Photo shows the lighting of the Olympic fire in Lustgarten, Berlin on August 1, 1936, where it will be guarded by Hitler Youths until it is brought to...

Eleanor Holm Jarrett, the U.S. Olympic team's champagne girl who was dismissed from the Olympic squad for drinking, is seen working out July 27, 1936...

Robert Wadlow, world's tallest human, poses with his family in Alton, Ill. July 27, 1936. From left are, Eugene, 14, Mrs. Harold Wadlow, Harold Jr., 4...

Jesse Owens, U.S. Olympic sprint and jumping star, takes a practice broad jump aboard the S.S. Manhattan at sea, while en route to Berlin, Germany, fo...

In the drive to embellish the city for the Olympic Games a beautiful stone monument was unveiled on Unter den Linden, the Olympic Via Triumphalis, Jul...

As the liner Manhattan, bearing the U.S. Olympic contingent, leaves for Europe, Jesse Owens, indulges in a little informal hurdling on shipboard. (A...

Jesse Owens of Ohio State University, left, and Ralph Metcalfe of Marquette University, pose before competing in the 100-yard dash, during the Olympic...

Jesse Owens of Ohio State University, left, and Ralph Metcalfe of Marquette University are shown together before competing in the 100-meter dash at th...

Female members of the United States track and field team in the Olympic games who will sail for Germany Wednesday show their new Olympic uniforms in t...

Official uniforms for U.S. athletes in the Olympic Games at Berlin, shown at sporting goods house, A.G. Spalding & Co. in New York on July 5, 1936....